In what respect is Tom Regan's Kantian approach to animal ethics "a difficult approach"?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
Regan's view, which implies that animals have dignity and worth in the same way humans do, is radically different from our everyday morality. For example, whether to save a human baby or a kitten from a burning building becomes a genuinely difficult moral question. Most people would take it to be obvious that the baby has greater worth, and hence ought to be saved.
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Medina is the second holiest city in Islam because:
a. it is the geographic center of Islam. b. it is the place where Muhammad lived for many years and is buried. c. the Kaaba is located in the Grand Mosque in Medina. d. it is the place where Muhammad received his first revelation from Gabriel.
Philosophy is:
1. the same as science. 2. the same as religion. 3. the love of wisdom. 4. the love of argumentation.
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A) Invalid; existential fallacy. B) Valid; no fallacy. C) Invalid; illicit contradiction. D) Invalid; illicit subalternation. E) Invalid; illicit conversion.